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Iran’s Daily New COVID-19 Cases Hit Two Consecutive Record Highs

Iran’s Daily COVID-19 Infections Top 30,000 in New Record

Videos Show March in Iranian Capital amid Water Protests

Tehran’s ‘Deadliest’ Police Units Deployed to Quell Ahwaz Protests

Qatar’s FM Meets Raisi in Tehran

Tehran Seeks to Calm Protests by Opening Dams in Ahwaz

Iranian Charged with War Crimes by Swedish Court for 1988 Prison Killing

A 60-year-old Iranian citizen has been charged in Sweden with suspected war crimes committed in Iran in 1988 when around 5,000 political prisoners were executed on government orders, Stockholm prosecutors said on Tuesday. The man, whom prosecutors declined to name publicly, has been in custody in

Iran Says it Detains Agents Working for Israel, Seizes Arms Cache

Iran said on Tuesday its security forces had arrested a network of agents working for Israel and had seized a cache of weapons it said were planned for use during recent unrest sparked by water shortages in the country, state media reported. Iran often accuses its enemies or rivals abroad, such a

‘Death to the Dictator’ Chants Rise in Central Tehran

A crowd of Iranian demonstrators in central Tehran chanted “Death to the dictator,” demanding the resignation of the regime’s top official, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in wake of the water protests in Ahwaz. Video clips showed hundreds of people on the Jomhouri and Valiasr streets, the capital’s

US Bill Seeks Information on Corrupt Business Practices of Iran’s Leaders

UN Tells Iran to Stop Crackdown

US Mulls Crackdown on Chinese Imports of Iranian Oil

Khamenei Says Iran’s Water Crisis Protesters Cannot be Blamed

Rights Groups: Iran Using Unlawful Force in Water Protest Crackdown

Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzestan province, international rights groups said on Friday. Amnesty International said it had confirmed the deaths of at least eight protesters and bystanders,

Iran's Rouhani Says Water Protesters Have 'Right' to Demonstrate

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani admitted that Khuzestan people have the right to protest, stressing that tolerating water shortage and heat above 50 degrees is "very hard and exhausting and people have the right to protest the current situation." He described people's protest in the difficult and

Iran: Mobile Internet Disruptions Reported Amid Water Protests

Mobile phone internet service in Iran is being disrupted a week into protests in the country's southwest over water shortages, a monitoring group said Thursday, unrest that has seen at least three people killed. Internet-access advocacy group NetBlocks.org attributed part of the disruption to "st

German Woman Caught Covid In Iran Jail, Daughter Says

White House: Iran Undermines Lebanese Sovereignty

Iran Says Police Officer Killed in Unrest amid Water Protest

Ahvaz Protests Threaten to Spread Across Iran

Iran's Daily COVID-19 Infections Hit Another High

Iran on Tuesday broke another record in the country's daily new coronavirus cases, even as Tehran and its surroundings went into lockdown, a week-long measure imposed amid another surge in the pandemic. The country’s health ministry announced 27,444 new cases and 250 deaths over the past day, bri

Tehran Awaits Power Transition before Resuming Vienna Talks

Iranian Security Forces Open Fire at Protesters in Ahvaz

Blinken Speaks to Iranian-American Journalist after Kidnap Plot

IAEA: Pause in Iran Nuclear Talks 'Uncomfortable'